With View Persona Management, you can migrate existing user profiles in a variety of settings to View desktops. When users log in to their View desktops after a profile migration is complete, they are presented with the personal settings and data that they used on their legacy systems.

By migrating user profiles, you can accomplish the following desktop migration goals:

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You can upgrade your users' systems from Windows XP to Windows 7 or Windows 8 and migrate your users from physical computers to View for the first time.

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In an existing View deployment, you can upgrade from Windows XP View desktops to Windows 7 or Windows 8 View desktops.

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You can migrate from physical computers to View desktops without upgrading the operating systems.

To support these scenarios, View Persona Management provides a profile migration utility and a standalone View Persona Management installer for physical or virtual machines that do not have View Agent 5.x installed.